Physics Division Colloquium

Auditorium, Building 203, Argonne National Laboratory

Fridays at 11:00 AM

2015-2016 Program

Please contact the host if you wish to arrange a discussion with the speaker.

11 Sep 2015	B. Alex Brown, Michigan State University Double Beta Decay and the Nuclear Shell Model Host: Richard Chasman
18 Sep 2015	Andrew Geraci, University of Nevada, Reno Hunting for axions and new short-range gravitational forces using resonant sensors Host: Jerry Nolen
25 Sep 2015	Bryce Littlejohn, Illinois Institute of Technology Probing Mysteries In Particle Physics With Neutrino Oscillations Host: Don Geesaman
2 Oct 2015	S. Mark Ammons, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Trails and Dead Bodies: Directly Characterizing Extrasolar Planets with Adaptive Optics Host: Jerry Nolen
9 Oct 2015	Elena Rozhkova and Tijana Rajh, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory Cancer Nanotechnology: At the Interface of Engineered Nanomaterials and Living Systems Host: Andreas Roelofs
16 Oct 2015	Steve Gourlay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory High Field Magnets for a Future High Energy proton-proton Collider Host: Rik Yoshida
23 Oct 2015	No colloquium
30 Oct 2015	2015 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28-31 Oct
6 Nov 2015	Bobby Kasthuri, Nanoscience and Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory The BRAIN Initiative Host: Andreas Roelofs
13 Nov 2015	Don Geesaman, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Reaching for the Horizon: The 2015 NSAC Long Range Plan Host: Richard Chasman
20 Nov 2015	Jack Gilbert, Biosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory Invisible Influence: Exploring the human microbiome Host: Richard Pardo
27 Nov 2015	Thanksgiving - No colloquium
4 Dec 2015	Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Advances in coupled‐cluster computations of nuclei Host: Melina Avila Coronado
11 Dec 2015	Physics Division Holiday Party - No colloquium
18 Dec 2015	Olli Heinonen, Harvard University Evolving International Nuclear Safeguards Host: Dick Chasman
25 Dec 2015	Christmas - No colloquium
1 Jan 2016	New Year's - No colloquium
8 Jan 2016	Michael Levin, University of Chicago The Puzzling Boundaries of Topological Quantum Matter Host: Jason Clark
15 Jan 2016	Christopher M. Sorensen, Kansas State University Of Soot and Sunflowers Host: Jason Clark
22 Jan 2016	Michael P. Kelly, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory RF Superconductivity for Particle Accelerators: The Last 15 Years Host: Richardo Pardo
29 Jan 2016	Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Towards an Atomic Level Description of a Living Cell - The Photosynthetic Chromatophore of Purple Bacteria, a Milestone Host: Jason Clark
5 Feb 2016	Jeffrey W. Elam, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Tunable Resistance Coatings Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition Host: Jerry Nolen
12 Feb 2016	Cliff Frohlich, University of Texas Human-caused earthquakes in Texas and the world: All alike, and all different Host: Jason Clark
19 Feb 2016	Chunguang Jing, Euclid Techlabs and High-Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Argonne Wakefield Accelerator: A pathway to future e+e- colliders and light factories Host: Marcel Demarteau
26 Feb 2016	Ben Kay, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Getting to Know the Nuclei Involved in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Host: Jason Clark
4 Mar 2016	No colloquium
11 Mar 2016	Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University Cosmology, the Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background, and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Host: Salman Habib
18 Mar 2016	No colloquium
25 Mar 2016	Gabriella Sciolla, Brandeis University Double the energy, double the fun: first results from the new and improved LHC Host: Tom LeCompte
1 Apr 2016	Brian Fields, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign When Stars Attack! In Search of Near-Earth Supernova Explosions Host: Jason Clark
8 Apr 2016	Henry C. Kapteyn, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST Practical ultrashort pulse tabletop “x-ray lasers,” and their applications Host: Jason Clark
Wednesday 13 Apr 2016 2:00 PM	Olga Botner, Uppsala University Recent results from IceCube - the dawn of neutrino astronomy? Host: Richard Pardo
22 Apr 2016	Aaron Greco, Energy Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory Modern Tribology with Application to Wind Turbine Drivetrain Reliability Host: Jerry Nolen
29 Apr 2016	Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University LIGO discovery of a Binary Black Hole Merger Host: Melina Avila Coronado
6 May 2016	Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington Searching for Dark-Matter Axions Host: Birger Back
13 May 2016	Daryl Haggard, McGill University Interpreting Sgr A*'s Most Luminous X-ray Flares Host: Jason Clark
20 May 2016	Scott Dodelson, Fermilab and University of Chicago Myth-Busters: Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope Host: Don Geesaman
26-27 May 2016	Quantum Computing: Beginnings to Current Frontiers Symposium in honor of Paul Benioff's contribution to Quantum Computing

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2015-2016 Committee

Melina Avila Coronado (252-4060, [email protected] mail)
Birger Back (252-3618, [email protected] mail)
Jason Clark (Chair) (252-4035, [email protected] mail)
Richard Chasman (252-3614, [email protected] mail)
Don Geesaman (252-4059, [email protected] mail)
Jerry Nolen (Past Chair) (252-6418, [email protected] mail)
Richard Pardo (252-4029, [email protected] mail)
Murray Peshkin (252-4061,[email protected] mail)
Andreas Roelofs (NST) (252-2504, [email protected] mail)
Kenneth Teh (252-3073, [email protected] mail)
Rik Yoshida (HEP) (252-7874, [email protected] mail)
Secretary Colleen Tobolic (252-3663, [email protected] mail)
Web Guy Robert Wiringa (252-6134, [email protected] mail)
Phone numbers are area code 630

 

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